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The bread--called a host, from the Latin hostia, meaning a “sacrificial victim”--rests on a plate of precious metal called a paten.
An Instructed Eucharist Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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The bread--called a host, from the Latin hostia, meaning a “sacrificial victim”--rests on a plate of precious metal called a paten.
Archive 2007-03-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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José Mourinho might have been wrong too: he said he feared someone giving Cristiano Ronaldo a hostia – literally, a consecrated bread; figuratively, a kicking – and Marca launched a campaign to protect the Portuguese attacker, whining every time anyone went near him.
Atlético's great expectations grounded by brilliance of Barcelona 2010
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Confixa clavis viscera tendens manus, vestigia, redemptionis gratia hic immolata est hostia.
September 14: the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross bls 2008
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Confixa clavis viscera tendens manus, vestigia, redemptionis gratia hic immolata est hostia.
Archive 2008-09-01 bls 2008
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Expressions like "me cago en la hostia" y "me cago en Dios" are absolutely unthinkable to Central Americans and I'd venture to guess, to most South Americans, too.
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“Hoc quoque notandum, vitulos ad aras humeris hominum allatos non fere litare; sicut nec claudicante, nec aliena hostia placari deos; neque trahente se ab aris.” —
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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* [6788] Observatum est a sacrificantibus, ut si hostia quæ ad aras duceretur, fuisset vehementer reluctata, ostendissetque se invitam altaribus admoveri, amoveretur, quia invito Deo eam offerri putabant; quæ vero stetisset oblata, hanc volenti numini dari existimabant.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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* [3164] Observatum est a sacrificantibus, ut si hostia quæ ad aras duceretur, fuisset vehementer reluctata, ostendissetque se invitam altaribus admoveri, amoveretur, quia invito Deo eam offerri putabant; quæ vero stetisset oblata, hanc volenti numini dari existimabant.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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* [6764] Hoc quoque notandum, vitulos ad aras humeris hominum allatos non fere litare; sicut nec claudicante, nec aliena hostia placari deos; neque trahente se ab aris.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
sionnach commented on the word hostia
the communion wafer. Also, one of the strongest swear words in Spanish (much more so than the scatologically or anatomically based words).
November 2, 2007